Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-06

irg npOn religious work, All ye men
md women who in Sabbath school and
other depai tments are toiling for Chris
and the salvation Of imnortals.
Brevity! Brevity!
But | remark also that the religious
discourse of tie future of which |
speak will be IA popular discourse.
There are those in these times who
peak of a popul ir sermon as though
there must be something wrong about
ii. As these critics are dull them
selves, the world gets the impression
that :. a,rmon is good in proportion as
il is stupid. Christ was the most pop
ular preacher the world ever saw, and
co STEERING the small number Of the
worlds population had the largest
audiences ever gathered. He never
preached anywhere without making n
great sensation. People rushed out in
the wilderness to helr him reckless of
their physical necessities. So great was
their anxiety to hear Christ thai, taking
no food with them, they would have
tainted and starved had not Christ per.
formed a miracle and fed them.
Why did so many people take the
truth ut Chrlst's hands? Because they
all u derstood il. He illustrated his
subject by a hen and her chickens, by
a bushel measure, by IA handful of salt,
by a birds flight, and by a lily's aroma.
All the people knew what He meant,
and they
FIOCKEn tn HIM
And when the religious discourse of
the future appears, it will not be
Princetonian, not Rochesterian. not
Andoverian, not M~iddletonian, but
Olivetic-plain, practical. unique,
earnest, comprehensive of all the woes,
sins, sorrows and necessities of an au-
ditory.
Blu when that exhortation or dis.
course does come there will be a
thousand cleaning scimitars to charge
on it. There are in SO many theology
cal seminaries professors telling young
men how to preach, themselves not
knowing how, and | am told that if a
Young man in some of our theological
Seminaries says anything quaint or
thrilling or unique, faculty and students
ily at him and set him right, and
strengthen him out, and smooth him
down, and chop him off, until he says
everything just as every body else says
it.
Oh, when the future religious dis
course of the Christian church arrives.
AL the churches OF Christ in our great
cities will be thronged. The world
wants splitua' help. All who have
buried their dead want comfort. All
know themselves TO be mortal andwan,
to be immortal and they want to hear
about the great future. tell you, my
friends, If the people of our great cities
who have had trouble only thought
they could get
PRACTICAL AND SYMPATHETIC
help in the christian church. there
would not be q street in New York, or
Brooklyn, or Chicago, or Charleston,
or Philadelphia, or Boston which would
be passable on the Sabbath day if there
were q church On it; for all the people
would press to that asylum of mercy,
that great house of comfort and conso-
lation.
A mother with a dead babe in her
arms came to the god Veda and asked
to have her child restored to life. The
god Veda said to her: You 90 and get
a handful of mustard seed from a house
in which there has been no sorrow,
and in which there has been no death.
and | will restore your child to life"
SO the mother went out. and she
went from house to house, AID from
home TO home, looking for "A place
where there had been no sorrow and
where there had been no death, but she
found none. She went back to the god
Ncda and said: '.My mission is a fail
ure, you see | haven't brought the mus
tard seed; | can't find a place where
there has been no sorrow and no
death" Oh says the god veda.
understand your sorrows are no
worse than the SORROWS of others; We
all have our griefs and all have our
heart~breaks."
Laugh, and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow It's mirth.
But has trouble enough ot It's own.
REASONS WHY PEOPLE DO NOT ATTEND
CHURCH.
We hear 4 great deal of discussion
now all over the land about why peo-
pie do not 90 to church. Some say it
IS because Christianity is dying out,
and because people do not believe in
the truth of Gods word, and all that.
They arc false reasons. The reason is
because our sermons and exhortations
are not interesting, sind practical. and
helpful. Some n might as well tell
the who,e truth on this subject, and so
| will tejl II. The religious discourse
of the future, the Gospel sermon to
come forth and shake the nations and
lift people out of darkness, will be a
popular sermon. just for the simple
reason that it will meet the woes and
the wants and the ~anXieties Of the peo-
pie.
There are in al our denominations
ecclesiastical mummies sitting around
to frown upon the fresh young pulpits
of America, TO try to awe them down,
to cry out: Tut tut init Sensation